Project Director at Turner & Townsend Tanzania

Turner & Townsend is a global professional services company with over 22,000 people in more than 60 countries.

Working with our clients across real estate, infrastructure, energy and natural resources, we transform together delivering outcomes that improve people’s lives. Working in partnership makes it possible to deliver the world’s most impactful projects and programmes as we turn challenge into opportunity and complexity into success.

Our capabilities include programme, project, cost, asset and commercial management, controls and performance, procurement and supply chain, net zero and digital solutions.

We are majority-owned by CBRE Group, Inc., the world’s largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, with our partners holding a significant minority interest. Turner & Townsend and CBRE work together to provide clients with the premier programme, project and cost management offering in markets around the world.

Key responsibilities:

• Lead and manage an entire stadium construction project from inception to completion, ensuring it is delivered on time, within budget, and to specified quality standards.
• Develop and implement project plans, including schedules, budgets, and resource allocation.
• Coordinate with architects, engineers, contractors, and other stakeholders to ensure project specifications and requirements are met.
• Monitor project progress and performance, making adjustments as necessary to achieve project goals.
• Ensure compliance with all safety regulations, building codes, and environmental standards.
• Conduct regular site inspections to assess progress and quality of work.
• Manage project documentation, including contracts, change orders, and progress reports.
• Facilitate communication and collaboration among all project team members and stakeholders.
• Provide leadership and guidance to project teams, fostering a positive and productive work environment.
• Identify potential risks and develop mitigation strategies to address them.
• Make strategic decisions and provide leadership and direction to project managers to implement those decisions
• Liaise with client personnel and build strong working relationships
• Devise cost-effective plans to enable effective project completion
• Ensure permits and statutory approvals are secured to allow timely project completion
• Manage project managers and enable them to supervise and manage their own teams
• Derive (and maintain) cost estimates for projects and work with finance partners and project sponsors to create (and maintain) business cases for business approval.
• Execute additional tasks as required in order to meet project sponsor changing priorities

Service Delivery

• Develop and manage a suite of governance, communication and management control systems for the proper conduct and assured delivery of the client’s essential services and works.
• Monitor overall team performance and initiate any required safety or performance improvement measures and methodologies.
• Monitor and audit compliance with the requirements of the management systems and report as required.
• Continually identify any project risks, actively assign and manage mitigations as appropriate.
• Initiate and conduct weekly technical and progress meetings relating to the services and works.
• Manage any client stage gateway reviews and attainment of conditions precedent to such approvals.
• Manage the attainment of design stage deliverables to schedule and quality that may be concurrent with any fast-track works package procurements and associated permitting and approvals requirements.
• Produce formal reports on project progress measured against the baseline and milestone dates and agreed project wide KPI’s.
• Prepare weekly, monthly and ad-hoc reports on project progress for the Employer’s representative, prepare and conduct presentations as required.
• Manage and administer the relevant contracts affording appropriate protection of the client’s interests.
• Leading cross-discipline teams of project controls professionals to deliver effective, consistent, assured and value-adding project controls services to our clients across diverse and complex programmes to support and drive delivery.
• Driving continuous improvement in project controls processes to create efficiency and increasing benefits to our clients.
• Defining and implementing project controls approaches across the project, programme and portfolio levels allowing effective decision making at all levels.
• Defining and implementing effective governance and assurance processes around project controls products.
• Working with clients to develop relevant breakdown structure and support scope definitions.
• Defining scaled, tailored, and integrated approaches for project controls and documenting these (for example in a Project Control System Definition).
• Defining the scope through the identification and management of exclusions, assumptions, interfaces, and dependencies, and coordinate the scope’s decomposition.
• Working with the Integrated Project Team to establish a robust, accurate Performance Measurement Baseline and manage the change control process.
• Working with Project and Commercial Management to establish the Supplier Project Controls contract requirements, and then collaborating with suppliers to integrate and analyze their performance data.
• Ensuring scope, cost, risk and schedule integration and alignment, and analyze performance data to provide delivery insight and facilitate delivery decisions.

Corporate objectives

• Develop and implement business development strategies, pursuing key project opportunities, new business targets, and clients.
• Develop and implement project set-up and delivery strategies.
• Providing oversight, assurance and problem solving on projects as required.
• Building our proposition and delivery capability
• Developing and maintaining senior / executive level relationships with clients and industry peers
• Project execution assurance
• Work closely with, and oversee the performance of, existing operational Project and Cost Management teams.
• Coordinate with project team leaders on project negotiations and execution.
• Assuring the quality, accuracy, and integrity of the Project Controls Team’s output.

Leadership

• Undertaking line management activities including career development and performance management.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Construction Management, Civil Engineering, Architecture, or a related field .
• Minimum of 10 years of experience in construction management, with a focus on large-scale projects, preferably in stadium or sports facility construction.
• Proven track record of successfully managing complex construction projects from start to finish.
• Strong knowledge of construction processes, materials, and regulations.
• Excellent leadership, communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to work effectively under pressure and manage multiple priorities.
• Proficient in project management software and tools.
• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

Preferred Skills

• Experience with sustainable building practices and materials.
• Familiarity with LEED certification or equivalent green building standards.
• Certification from a recognized project management organization (e.g., PMP).

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